Week 1 | Day 2 | Jesus in Disguise

Command:

Go and do likewise. Luke 10:25-37

Read:

When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:38-41 (NIV)

Reflect:

In the Bible God identifies with the powerless and vulnerable members of our society and he takes up their cause. He is a father to the fatherless, and the defender of widows and the poor. What we choose to do for them in their hour of need, is what we choose to do for Jesus. 

Mexican song-writer Jesús Adrián Romero expresses this truth in his song Ayer Te Vi (I Saw You Yesterday). I invite you to read the following words as you listen to the song on your digital music app:

I saw you yesterday (Jesus)… It was clearer than the moon
There were no doubts left in me … It was a clear appearance
My heart skipped a beat when I saw you

I saw you yesterday … after having looked for you for so long
Before the sun came out …
Asking you in prayer to allow me to see your face 

I saw you yesterday
I saw you in a street child without a place to sleep
I saw you in his outstretched hands asking for bread to live
I saw you in his pleading eyes and in his hesitant smile

I saw you yesterday
I saw you in a hospital room, I saw you cry out of loneliness
I saw your troubled face in a terminally ill patient with no hope of living, 
tired of suffering so much

I saw you yesterday

You disguise yourself and hide from my sight
But I saw you yesterday

React:

Can you see Jesus in the vulnerable members of our society? How do you respond in their hour of need?

Pray:

Lord Jesus, help me see those you called “the least of these” as your image bearers and act accordingly.